Inside The Atelier and Home of Lanvin's Jewelry Designer

In a new tome Fashionable Selby, all-around creative type Todd Selby documents the environments of the fashion industry's diverse characters. Here, we get a glimpse inside the domain of Elie Top, the costume jeweler for the legendary house of Lanvin.

Through a candid stew of photography, doodles, and text, Todd Selby illustrates a fantastical narrative of Lanvin's in-house jewelry designer Elie Top's day-to-day work life in a new book Fashionable Selby. Top has honed his skills working alongside Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz since 1998 (before that, he was at Yves Saint Laurent as a designer in accessories where he frequently collaborated with muse Loulou de la Falaise). "Avoiding precious stones in favor of larger-than-life costume jewelry, he makes pieces that are unrestricted by color, size, or cut," Selby pens in chapter 4. Top's fascination with gobstopper-sized faux gems crafted into eclectic wearable art pieces also extends to his home, where artfully mixes high and low, new and old, and bright and dull.